After a while, the conversations became almost cordial.

Working to establish a more comfortable style of survival has grown to feel complete in and of itself as a reason to live, and we've gradually, methodically, forgotten our original question … We've...

The problem was that our focused, obsessive drive to conquer nature and make ourselves more comfortable had left the natural systems of the planet polluted and on the verge of collapse. We

Fear lowers one's vibration tremendously.

With that, everything was suddenly thrown into greater relief, a kind of super three-dimensionality that enhanced the presence and realness of everything in my perceptual field, from the small insects...

That humans are stuck in a kind of competition for each other's energy. When we can get others to acquiesce to our view, they identify with us and that pulls their energy into us and we feel stronger.

Only individual opinions are fixed and dogmatic.

We're cutting corners, maximizing short-term profits

We're already living in the information age. Everyone will have to educate themselves the best they can, become an expert in some niche, so that they can be in the right place to advise someone else...

What we don't realize is that this sense of feeling better costs the other person. It is their energy that we have stolen. Most people go through their lives in a constant hunt for someone else's...

It is not just about being thankful, it is to make eating a holy experience, so the energy from the food can enter your body.

because blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

This restless searching is what's behind the 'me–first' attitude that has characterized recent decades, and it's affecting everyone, from Wall Street to street gangs. She

creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that...

When people come into our lives at just the right time to give us the answers we need, we should give them money.

We're all looking for more fulfillment in our lives, and we won't put up with anything that seems to bring us down.

Healing in its essence is about breaking through the fears associated with life-fears

I could see the two sides hardening, their feelings intensifying, as both began to think the other not just wrong, but hideous, venal... in league with the devil himself.